String to Vector3

Questions & Answers
1

I’ve been looking for a way to convert a string (which was created by a vector3) to a vector3 back again. I could not find anything useful yet… How can I make this?
Thanks

2

Did you look at String methods?

Use those in a function:

	public static Vector3 StringToVector3(string sVector)
	{
		// Remove the parentheses
		if (sVector.StartsWith ("(") && sVector.EndsWith (")")) {
			sVector = sVector.Substring(1, sVector.Length-2);
		}

		// split the items
		string[] sArray = sVector.Split(',');

		// store as a Vector3
		Vector3 result = new Vector3(
			float.Parse(sArray[0]),
			float.Parse(sArray[1]),
			float.Parse(sArray[2]));

		return result;
	}
3

any clue why it says that the input string is not in a correct format? here’s the code i tested this with:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class TestConversion : MonoBehaviour
{
    string s = "(0.0,0.0,0.0)";

         public static Vector3 StringToVector3(string sVector)
         {
             // Remove the parentheses
             if (sVector.StartsWith ("(") && sVector.EndsWith (")")) {
                 sVector = sVector.Substring(1, sVector.Length-2);
             }
     
             // split the items
             string[] sArray = sVector.Split(',');
     
             // store as a Vector3
             Vector3 result = new Vector3(
                 float.Parse(sArray[0]),
                 float.Parse(sArray[1]),
                 float.Parse(sArray[2]));
     
             return result;
         }



    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
 
        Debug.Log(StringToVector3(s));
    }


}